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> Apple is intensely allergic to the GPL. Their actual marketplace behaviour demonstrates that they're allergic to GPL version 3 specifically, not the GPL or c
by sjwright 6y ago
> Apple is intensely allergic to the GPL.
Their actual marketplace behaviour demonstrates that they're allergic to GPL version 3 specifically, not the GPL or copyleft in general.
- stephen_g 6y agoWhich I think is reasonable - I do think GNU went too far with the version 3 licenses. I think Rob Landley's perspective is interesting, where he was involved with Busybox and the legal action against companies violating the GPL with that software, but later created an alternative to Buysbox that was more permissively licensed because he felt that the whole GPL legal action exercise had been counter-productive for open source software in general (net effect of not encouraging many companies to contribute back but instead just making many companies avoid GPL-licensed software altogether).
- saagarjha 6y agoThey’re fairly allergic to copyleft these days; I can’t recall them adopting a new project with any version of GPL for quite a while.
- sjwright 6y agoThere aren't so many GPL 2.0–only projects out there to adopt.